Blackfire (DC)
Blackfire is a female extraterrestrial comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Komand'r
Her sickly nature led to Komand'r being unfit to rule and inherit the throne from her parents. Afterwards, her father had another child with this being a daughter named Koriand'r. Komand'r was said to despised her younger sibling for Koriand'r had been made princess thus meaning that she would rule Tamaran one day. When they were children, it was believed that Komand'r was responsible for killing Koriand'r's pet dror named Snar though Blackfire told their mother that the animal was dead when she found it. (Tales of the New Teen Titans v1 #4)
Later on, her mother gave birth to another child with this being a son named Ryand'r. (Tales of the New Teen Titans v1 #4)
The Sun-Eater drained New Tamaran's sun, and a number of spaceship troops went to destroy it. An alien named Dusk landed on New Tamaran, and while Blackfire accused her of collaborating with the Sun-Eater Starfire didn't see her as a threat. Dusk'd seen the Sun-Eater snuff out the sun of countless planets, and she was there to warn the Tamaranians. Starfire helped Dusk get off-planet, leading Blackfire to label her a traitor. The Sun-Eater destroyed the Tamaraneans set against it, and after New Tamaran's sun was destroyed the planet exploded, killing every Tamaranean on the planet. (Final Night v1 #1)
Vril Dox teleported Rann to the former location of Tamaran in the Vegan system, determined to rebuild his L.E.G.I.O.N. there and clean up the system. Blackfire, whose powers had been restored after holding a group of Psions hostage, was commanding her Tamaraneans fleet when she heard the news, and felt it to be an affront to her people. She invaded Rann, and attacked Starfire, who was now a member of Vril's R.E.B.E.L.S. calling her a traitor to her own people. The invasion of Rann was halted by GLs Altin Admos and Gorius Karkum, and Blackfire wondered why the Corps was suddenly showing an interest in the Vegan system. Neither the Rannians nor the Tamaraneans appreciate the interference, and attacked the GLs. Adam Strange used a zeta-beam to teleport himself, the GLs and Blackfire into space. They said they could resolve their differences without outside help, and Blackfire agreed that she could talk to Adam if he was not directly working for Vril Dox. A Thanagarian warfleet interrupted their discussion. Vril Dox was aboard, having brokered a peace treaty between the Thanagarians and Rann. They no longer shared the same solar system, let alone the same planet, and those who blamed Rann for Thanagar's destruction were dead or deposed. They returned to Rann, and Vril offered the empty southern continent to Blackfire and her people as a new home. She admired the brilliant and ruthless egomaniac, seeing a lot of herself in him. (R.E.B.E.L.S. v1 #17)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Koriand'r was bitter towards Komand'r and the people of Tamaran for her enslavement. After Kori fought her way free, she was praised as a hero and Kom gave her a ship to leave Tamaran but that was not enough to repair the rift between them. When Roy Harper was captured by the Blight, Kom visited him in his cell and appeared to be working with the Blight. (Red Hood and the Outlaws v1 #11)
Roy's capture was revealed to be a mission to rescue Komand'r and Roy took her and teleported back to Koriand'r and Jason Todd. The two sisters reunited in a teary conversation and Kori forgave her sister. (Red Hood and the Outlaws v1 #12) The four of them worked together to take back Tamaran. They returned to Tamaran in Kori's ship and fought the Blight's soldiers alongside some of the Starfire's crew members. When Kom got stabbed in the back with a spear by the Blight leader, Kori's emotions overwhelmed her and she unleashed an energetic shock wave that wiped out everything in sight. (Red Hood and the Outlaws v1 #13)
She would later align with the Daemonite warlord Helspont to secure safety for Tamaran, using her sister’s rescue as leverage. (Red Hood and the Outlaws v1 #40)
When Helspont hesitated to spare Starfire’s life, Blackfire turned on him in a critical moment of loyalty—blasting him with a powerful energy explosion to prevent the execution. Helspont retaliated by physically flinging Blackfire across the battlefield, leaving her unconscious and gravely injured. This allowed Starfire and the Outlaws to regroup where Crux hacked the Daemonite hive-mind to shut them down whilst Arsenal delivered the final blow—obliterating Helspont with heavy weaponry. Blackfire was left unconscious where Starfire decided to take her back to Tamaran to heal. (Red Hood and the Outlaws v1 #40)
At some point, the Coluans were responsible for capturing Tamaran and other worlds that were placed in a pocket dimension until they were released during the incident involving the Omega Titans. Upon their restoration, they came to inhabit the volatile region of space known as the Ghost Sector with Blackfire being among the people inhabiting this area of space. Whilst there, she ruled a ruined world that worshipped her sister Starfire as a goddess which was when she encountered Darkseid who offered her an alliance. (Justice League Odyssey v1 #4)
Blackfire was brought on board by Cyborg when the Justice League Odyssey crew arrives at the Zamaron science station, though she is visibly reluctant and hostile toward Starfire and the rest. In her initial engagement, she commands a combined force of her Tamaranian soldiers and Rapture's followers to ambush the Odyssey team while they are preoccupied with Darkseid’s trapped entity. (Justice League Odyssey v1 #8)
Overview
Personality and attributes
According to Koriand'r, Blackfire was evil with a soul as black as death itself. (Tales of the New Teen Titans v1 #4)
Her parents were said to had loved all their children equally but eventually it became impossible to love Komand'r. (Tales of the New Teen Titans v1 #4)
It was said that Komand'r was the only one who did not rejoice at the birth of her sister Koriand'r. The differences between the sisters was said to had been very apparent. It was said that Komand'r was responsible for killing her sisters pet dror and once she beat Koriand'r as she hated that she could fly. Afterwards, for years they inhabited the same palace but the two never spoken to one another thus causing the two to grow further apart. (Tales of the New Teen Titans v1 #4)
Powers and abilities
It was noted that she had been sickly from birth and this resulted in her being declared unfit to rule Tamaran. Initially, she was unable to harness the solar winds that would let Tamaraneans soar unfettered in the skies. (Tales of the New Teen Titans v1 #4)
Blackfire's Tamaranian physiology constantly absorbs pure ultraviolet energy and converts it into circular blasts of lilac-colored ultraviolet energy called 'blackbolts' which she projects from her hands and, later, her eyes. Like Starfire, Blackfire can discharge the ultraviolet energy she absorbed, as the results of the experiments on her. She can covert this ultraviolet energy into bright purple, circular blasts called 'blackbolts'. She can even shoot this from her eyes as a surprise attack or when her hands are restrained. This is ability is not one of her natural Tamaranian abilities, but one she artificially gained from experiments.
After Katar Hol had stripped her of her powers, Komand'r sought out the Psions to restore and further strengthen them; this inadvertently also corrected her childhood illness and gave her the ability to fly faster than light itself, as her younger sister does. A new facet she displayed when her abilities were absorbed was leeching off the abilities of her sister to produce lilac nova blasts. (Outsiders v3 #32)
Notes
- Blackfire was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez where she made her first appearance in New Teen Titans v1 #22 (August, 1982).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Teen Titans, Blackfire appeared in the 2003 animated television series where she was voiced by actress Hynden Walch
- In Titans, Komand'r appeared in the live-action television series set in DC Universe where she was portrayed by actress Damaris Lewis.
Films
Video games
- In Injustice 2, Blackfire was referenced in dialogue during scenes with Starfire in the setting of the fighting video game.
Appearances
- New Teen Titans v1: (1982)
- Tales of the Teen Titans v1:
- Outsiders v3:
- Red Hood and the Outlaws v1:
- Justice League Odyssey v1: (2019)
- Titans United v1:
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